Clinkscales Arts

I found myself with a treasury last night, and considering that EBW is currently voting on their July Challenge, I knew what I would use to fill my treasury. And I honestly believe that Shakespeare *would* approve. (Or at least his sister would!) This treasury will be active until Monday morning (7/14) and you can vote on the challenge on the EBW blog for three more days. So hurry to both! Leave comments and clicks and vote for your favorite!

Yep, it’s that time of the month again (stole that from Carol Dean!) Voting has begun for the Etsy Beadweavers July Challenge - A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Visit the EBW Blog and choose your favorite. I had a vision in my head of what I wanted to create for it, but it didn’t come to fruition. But, check out the gorgeous entries that other team members came up with:

This month I managed to get a piece finished in time to enter in the Etsy BeadWeavers June Challenge.  The theme was “Anything Goes” and I believe we interpreted it well!  By the way, my Modern Sterling Silver Bracelet is #8 if you’d like to vote for ME!

The Beadweavers February Challenge theme was Spring Break. All of the entries are in and the voting has begun. Visit the Beadweaver’s blog to cast your vote. The selections are great again this month!

I was lazy and didn’t get my entry finished. I worked on it last night and it is NOT wanting to cooperate with me. I may have to re-think it. I’ll keep you posted.

Go vote!

The Storque asked the teams of Etsy to write little blurbs to be featured in an article about Valentine’s Day. The blurbs were supposed to highlight what the teams had planned for the holiday. Ours featured a write up about the challenge (which we ended YESTERDAY…eek!) and they chose a photo from the 42 red entries to represent the team. I have to say I was delighted when I saw my necklace in the article.

Speaking of the Beadweavers challenge, I want to say congratulations to Fennel Skellyman - the first man to join our group! - for receiving the most votes for his extravagant Fire Garden Necklace!! (Note: I came in 10th place in the challenge. It’s not a fabulous place to be, but it’s not too bad considering it was my first entry so thank you to everyone that voted for me!!) Fennel gets to pick the challenge theme for March because we changed things up a bit and we’re already working on the February theme - Spring Break.

I’m having trouble getting anything Spring in my head. I wanted to use February to do a cool winter piece. When I think of Spring Break, I think of March. But nevertheless, the team is hard at it, creating beauties for the next challenge. Voting will begin February 7th. I’ll remind you again once all of the entries are in.

If you want to follow along as the challenge pieces get listed, just search for EBWC on Etsy. If you click that link now, you’ll still see some of the RED pieces, but that will change once Spring Break pieces are listed.

Check out this mosaic of all of the entries in our RED Beadweaver’s Challenge!  Voting began today, so go cast your vote now!

Well, I finally managed to complete a piece and enter it in the Beadweavers Challenge. We chose red as our theme so we could showcase our items with a Valentine’s article in the Storque.

I chose a simple, elegant design for my entry - a luscious beaded bead suspended on a sterling silver chain.

Please visit the Beadweaver’s blog and vote for your favorite beginning January 7th.

October EBWC, originally uploaded by Sand Fibers.

The beading is done and the entries are posted! The Etsy Beadweaver’s Street Team has once again produced some amazing work. (No, I still haven’t managed to get a piece finished and submitted, but I have hope for the coming challenges - don’t give up on me yet!)

You can visit the Beadweaver’s blog and cast your vote for your favorite. Then…you can visit two of the street team member’s blogs (SandFiber’s & Time2Cre8’s) and leave comments to be entered to win fabulous beaded stuff!